Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-04
BONNER TO CLARK.
t. X. Bonner's Reply to George Clark's
Gard of May 90. e..

7. K. Bonner's Reply to George Clark
Il Gard of May 20.
Tyler, TEX. May 5l.-Hon. George
4 Clark of Waco, writing from Galveston
Iunder date of May %, published caro-
Tin both the Galveston News ard Dallas
News, commenting upon the report of my
speech at Franklin, in which he uses most
violent language. The report to the
News was as follows:
That he had heard 1t reported that Hon
George Clark had received $4,000 as q zee foT
accepting the state embarrassing of the anti
Prohibition party, and that ne took 1T as re
| would fee 10 defend any other criminal He
did not know whether the report wastrue or
not
Among other things, Judge Clark says
lam at loss to understand what useful pur-
pose this man eNpeCred to enhance by the cir
CuTatiOn of this gratultous falsehOOd. lie knew
IL was false ut the time he uttered 1T, and a
matter of fact never heard it. He at leass fails
TO Vaucnsafe to the pubic his source OF lnfOT-
nation, and until he does he must expect 70 be
treated as the original author and manufac-
turGr.
Thus it will be seen that Judge Clark
says emphatiCally that l knew the state
ment was false ct the time 1 uttered it,
and that in fact l never heard it, but that
L originated and purposely circulated &
! fslsehood upon him. Ordinarily ] would
not notice such q publication, but Judge
| Clark hes heretofore held high positions
! in the state government, bg appointment,
! first as attorney General and then as
member of the Court of Appeals. This,
! together with the gravity of the charge,
has decided me to depart from the more
conservative rule of treating such publ
| cations with silent contempt.
His published letter is so worded that
it cannot bA.replted to except by the use
Of equally plain language.
When Judge Clark said that 1 knew the
report was false at the time l uttered it,
Judge Clark Ted.
When Judge Clark said that l never
heard the report, JUDGE CLARK LIED.
When Judge Clark said that | manu-
featured the report JUDGE CLARK
LIED.
1t is well known that great whisky cor
porations outside of Texas, including the
National Liquor Dealers Association,
have contributed large sums of money to
conduct the campaign in this state. This
fund has been used, and is now being used,
to purchase the influence of cOlOred
men in this state against the prohibition
amendment. Judge Clark is ct the head
of the organization through which this
money is psid ant. The fact that he is
at the head of such an organization, snd
that through him money is being cor
ruptly used in this canvass, warrants the
! belief that he has received or has been
promised compensation, If not as chair
man, then as an individual or as an attor
ney.
Judge Clark is 9 EFily lawyer, and may
we'll understand the process by which di-
rect proof in such matters is often con-
cealed, but his published denial does not
shake the belief in the public mind that
he who controls, q great corruption fund,
10 be used TO defeat prohibition, IS to
have a direct personal participation in
that fund. Nor, Withall his fox-like Gun
ming and double dealing, is ne able to
leave me without testimony. For the
present submit only the following letter
from the editor of the Tyler Courier, an
Rnti-prohibition paper published at Tyler:
TYLER, TEX May 81, 1857.
Colonel T. r. Bonner:
DEAR SIR-Having read report of our speech
at Franklin, in. the Dallas News OF 2lst May,
and q card published. in the same paper by
Judge George CLARK of Waco the 23ru of May,
in which he states you never heard a certain
report that he had received $4,000 for his
]
party, voluntarily state thatI heard this re-
port on the streets Of Teller before you m ade
your Franklin speech, but do not remember
who l heard. say so. but | heard the report
more than once, and for several days prior to
your speech at Franklin. L. NJ GREEN.
The above letter RACES the foundation
upon which Judge Clark erected his
structure of falsehOOd against me.
Judge Oiark's allusion to the burial of
the Prohibitionists in the "potters' field"
on August forcibly reminds one of Judas
Iscariot. Judge Clark may by fraud,
corruption and evil practices, aid in such
burial st the time named, and he, IS the
chief dispenser of brides and corruption
money, may then shake his pieces of silver
over the grave where the peoples hope
lies buried, and marshal his hosts Of law
breakers around the sepulcher to curse and
/! wag their heads in scorn and derisioHt Ia
such q day and hour the sun of civil lib
erty which shines so brightly upon Amer
lean manhood in the nineteenth century
may well hide its face IN shame and re-
fuse for a time to shine upon The digs
graceful and appalling scene, and this
Judas may yet throw his blood money
upon the ground and go hang himself
But he need not lay the hatterlng unctionI
to his soul that there will be no resurreet
ton morn. Prohioitionis great advance
movement that may be checked in. theI
onward march for a time, but it will
gather new strength at every pause and
ultimately sweep forward to q glorious
triumph. The prohibitionists of Texas
differ with Judge CLARK as to who
will occupy this "poJters' field" on the
4th day of August. Notwithstanding
the corruption fund of the Anheuser-
Busch Brewing Association and other
great whisky corporations in other states,
to be deity handled by Judge Clark, we
know that there is q vast body of incor-
ruptible freemen in Texas whose votes |
and Influence cannot be purchased, who
will work and vote for prohibition, and |
who will, after the amendment is adopted |
and suitable Laws passed to give it vi